Miscellany
To Rachel (whom I know loves her) and Paula and everybody:
What. The. Fuck? Noooooooo! There's a BJ store near where I did my kid's show on the Upper East Side and I used to splurge on one of her pretty little sweaters every spring--the yellow polka-dotted sweater I wore to Rachel's shebang a few years ago was hers. Nooooo! I love her stuff!
I have to get a fashion icon. Well, my Coach icon will do for now.
Read The Hunger Games this week--wicked! Great story, great execution. Although I didn't forsee how it would end--I thought something else would happen. And does anyone else totally get a Slytherin vibe from the Careers? Katniss is obviously a Gryffindor (fire, chivalrous) and Peeta is a Hufflepuff. The boy from District 3 who's good with explosives is a Ravenclaw. I'm going to try to catch the movie this weekend.
I saw Titanic 3-D. The 3-D is *excellent,* well worth the extra $. The scene on the water in the aftermath, when they're waiting for the lifeboats to come back, is especially great with the effects--you really feel as though you're there. Still think Cal has hottter chemistry with Rose, although I believed Rose and Jack as a couple a little bit more. Mainly because they're both such good actors. It's kind of...awful, BTW, that Rose lets her mother think she's dead. I can see why she felt she had to do it, because it's the only way she could have her life, but still...her mother isn't THAT bad, she's just stuck in a terrible situation and sincerely believes that's the only way out, and frankly she's not a horrible mother for thinking that way. Most mothers would've done the same thing, especially since I doubt Cal shows his abusive side around the mother. I hope at some point Rose wrote her a postcard or something, letting her know she lived.
But oh my Lord, you have to feel for the actors who play Jack's friends. At least the Irish guy gets to be snarky--the Italian guy just has the absolute SUCKIEST lines. "I-uh see the statue-uh of Liberty!" All he's missing is a pizza in his hands as he dances around singing Abbondanza!
I REALLY want that beautiful green comb that Rose wears. (Not that it would stay in my stick-straight hair! But it's so beautiful...)
HATE the obnoxious guy with the beard--his part is just soooo terribly written and he is terrible in the role. Yes, people like that exist, insensitive people, treasure hunters, etc. but really, after his "fine forensic analysis" NO ONE said anything reprovingly to him? No one shot him a "hey jerk, STFU, this actually happened to her, it's not 'cool'" look? Cameron's script TRIES TOO HARD. The bad guys are too obviously bad and the good...well, Rose and Jack are pretty nuanced but the steerage passengers are all grimily noble.
People need to shut it about the damn door. There was room but no bouyancy--it wouldn't have held both of them, that's established that when they both try to climb on and it flips over.
I loooove that scene, that endless delineation, when she is dying and hears the lifeboat. She hears it--and I love how it's muted and changed because she is that close to death. Slowly, slowly she realizes, and there's that heart-breaking moment where she doesn't get it, that Jack is now dead. And when did that happen? Surely he was dying when he told her not to give up. She finally realizes and then it seems she gives up--she's just going to lie there and give in to despair and go with him. But then, no--slowly, she forces herself to keep her promise. It's a great sequence--something about that process, that here's where she makes that decision, here's where it could go either way, is fascinating to me.
Still love that ending.
What. The. Fuck? Noooooooo! There's a BJ store near where I did my kid's show on the Upper East Side and I used to splurge on one of her pretty little sweaters every spring--the yellow polka-dotted sweater I wore to Rachel's shebang a few years ago was hers. Nooooo! I love her stuff!
I have to get a fashion icon. Well, my Coach icon will do for now.
Read The Hunger Games this week--wicked! Great story, great execution. Although I didn't forsee how it would end--I thought something else would happen. And does anyone else totally get a Slytherin vibe from the Careers? Katniss is obviously a Gryffindor (fire, chivalrous) and Peeta is a Hufflepuff. The boy from District 3 who's good with explosives is a Ravenclaw. I'm going to try to catch the movie this weekend.
I saw Titanic 3-D. The 3-D is *excellent,* well worth the extra $. The scene on the water in the aftermath, when they're waiting for the lifeboats to come back, is especially great with the effects--you really feel as though you're there. Still think Cal has hottter chemistry with Rose, although I believed Rose and Jack as a couple a little bit more. Mainly because they're both such good actors. It's kind of...awful, BTW, that Rose lets her mother think she's dead. I can see why she felt she had to do it, because it's the only way she could have her life, but still...her mother isn't THAT bad, she's just stuck in a terrible situation and sincerely believes that's the only way out, and frankly she's not a horrible mother for thinking that way. Most mothers would've done the same thing, especially since I doubt Cal shows his abusive side around the mother. I hope at some point Rose wrote her a postcard or something, letting her know she lived.
But oh my Lord, you have to feel for the actors who play Jack's friends. At least the Irish guy gets to be snarky--the Italian guy just has the absolute SUCKIEST lines. "I-uh see the statue-uh of Liberty!" All he's missing is a pizza in his hands as he dances around singing Abbondanza!
I REALLY want that beautiful green comb that Rose wears. (Not that it would stay in my stick-straight hair! But it's so beautiful...)
HATE the obnoxious guy with the beard--his part is just soooo terribly written and he is terrible in the role. Yes, people like that exist, insensitive people, treasure hunters, etc. but really, after his "fine forensic analysis" NO ONE said anything reprovingly to him? No one shot him a "hey jerk, STFU, this actually happened to her, it's not 'cool'" look? Cameron's script TRIES TOO HARD. The bad guys are too obviously bad and the good...well, Rose and Jack are pretty nuanced but the steerage passengers are all grimily noble.
People need to shut it about the damn door. There was room but no bouyancy--it wouldn't have held both of them, that's established that when they both try to climb on and it flips over.
I loooove that scene, that endless delineation, when she is dying and hears the lifeboat. She hears it--and I love how it's muted and changed because she is that close to death. Slowly, slowly she realizes, and there's that heart-breaking moment where she doesn't get it, that Jack is now dead. And when did that happen? Surely he was dying when he told her not to give up. She finally realizes and then it seems she gives up--she's just going to lie there and give in to despair and go with him. But then, no--slowly, she forces herself to keep her promise. It's a great sequence--something about that process, that here's where she makes that decision, here's where it could go either way, is fascinating to me.
Still love that ending.